President Díaz-Canel Reaffirms Cuba's Commitment to the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, received George Katrougalos, Independent Expert of the...
Madam Vice-President:
A dictatorship has emerged in the globalised world. The order born out of the Second World War to prevent a third is being destroyed, and the philosophy of plunder is proclaimed as the exceptional and supreme right of the United States of America to conquest and the use of force as an immanent, natural, and everyday way of being. Beyond ideologies, all nation-states are in danger regardless of their cultural or political models.
For the fourth time, Cuba is presenting a report to the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the Human Rights Council. The national report that we are presenting today is the result of a broad and participatory process of consultations with government institutions and organizations of our civil society. Of the 226 recommendations accepted during the former Universal Periodic Review, 215 -that is, 95 per cent- have been implemented. We are making progress in the implementation of the other 11.
Statement by Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba, during the presentation of Cuba’s National Report to the Third Cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the Human Rights Council. Geneva, may 16, 2018. (Unofficial version)
